Christianity isn't very impressive a tech. Any belief system that murdered everyone not susceptible to it for two straight millennia is bound to achieve similar success. So the real powerlifting lever is the technology behind the mass murder, which is generalizably non-Christian.
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Like, step 1 was "get everyone to believe in Christianity" and then step 2 was ??? and then step 3 was the eschaton, and step 4, profit.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
All this applies equally to Islam. I think Islam was actually more successful than Christianity for a long time, until Christianity got to the New World.
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Replying to @LemurianWarlock
That's true, though at a glance, philosophically Islam seems to have more in common with Gnosticism and Platonism and thus to be marginally better in and of itself. But I have yet to read the Quran or study Islam in depth.
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Replying to @LemurianWarlock
I dunno, I forgot where I got the impression from.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
Christianity always struck me as pretty Gnostic. There might not be a Demiurge but there's definitely this idea that the earthly world is evil and lowly, and that the real good shit is "above". If i'm understanding it correctly, anyway.
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The devil is commonly stated as having rulership over this earth, which is very demiurgic. But Catholicism certainly took it in anther direction, saying the earthly world is good, being of God, or whatever.
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